Wikipedia Edits Scraper and IP Localizer


Scrapes Wikipedia history and does IP to Geo for anonymous edits
 

Instructions

The tool scrapes the complete edit history for a specific Wikipedia page. When the tool finds an IP address instead of a user name it will use Maxmind's GeoCity Lite database to resolve the IP address to a geo-location. This tool is inspired on http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr

Input: a wikipedia page (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web)

Output: a table with the following columns:
  • URL pointing to the specific version of the page
  • the time of the edit
  • the date of the edit
  • a link to the page of the user who edited
  • the user name or IP address
  • the size of the edit
  • the comment accompanying the edit
  • bot/using (when a bot or tool assisted user - detected by the phrase 'using ', is encountered)
  • city (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
  • country (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
  • country code (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
  • latitude (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)
  • longitude (when an IP address was detected instead of a user)

Note: if very little results are returned while you expect more, make sure that the URL you have inputted does not actually redirect to a different Wikipedia page.

This topic: Dmi > ToolDatabase > ToolWikipediaEditsScraperAndIPLocalizer
Topic revision: 23 Jun 2012, ErikBorra
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